absorb: preserve changesets which were already empty
Most commands in Mercurial (commit, rebase, absorb itself) don’t create empty
changesets or drop them if they become empty. If there’s a changeset that’s
empty, it must be a deliberate choice of the user. At least it shouldn’t be
absorb’s responsibility to prune them. The fact that changesets that became
empty during absorb are pruned, is unaffected by this.
This case was found while writing patches which make it possible to configure
absorb and rebase to not drop empty changesets. Even without having such config
set, I think it’s valuable to preserve changesets which were already empty.
= Test the known() protocol function =
Create a test repository:
$ hg init repo
$ cd repo
$ touch a ; hg add a ; hg ci -ma
$ touch b ; hg add b ; hg ci -mb
$ touch c ; hg add c ; hg ci -mc
$ hg log --template '{node}\n'
991a3460af53952d10ec8a295d3d2cc2e5fa9690
0e067c57feba1a5694ca4844f05588bb1bf82342
3903775176ed42b1458a6281db4a0ccf4d9f287a
$ cd ..
Test locally:
$ hg debugknown repo 991a3460af53952d10ec8a295d3d2cc2e5fa9690 0e067c57feba1a5694ca4844f05588bb1bf82342 3903775176ed42b1458a6281db4a0ccf4d9f287a
111
$ hg debugknown repo 000a3460af53952d10ec8a295d3d2cc2e5fa9690 0e067c57feba1a5694ca4844f05588bb1bf82342 0003775176ed42b1458a6281db4a0ccf4d9f287a
010
$ hg debugknown repo
Test via HTTP:
$ hg serve -R repo -p $HGPORT -d --pid-file=hg.pid -E error.log -A access.log
$ cat hg.pid >> $DAEMON_PIDS
$ hg debugknown http://localhost:$HGPORT/ 991a3460af53952d10ec8a295d3d2cc2e5fa9690 0e067c57feba1a5694ca4844f05588bb1bf82342 3903775176ed42b1458a6281db4a0ccf4d9f287a
111
$ hg debugknown http://localhost:$HGPORT/ 000a3460af53952d10ec8a295d3d2cc2e5fa9690 0e067c57feba1a5694ca4844f05588bb1bf82342 0003775176ed42b1458a6281db4a0ccf4d9f287a
010
$ hg debugknown http://localhost:$HGPORT/
$ cat error.log
$ killdaemons.py